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Jewel Beetles
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Jewel Beetles

Buprestidae

Buprestidae is a family of beetles known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. Larvae of this family are known as flatheaded borers. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some 15,000 species known in 450 genera. In addition, almost 100 fossil species have been described.

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Buprestinae

subfamilyBuprestinae

Chrysochroinae

subfamilyChrysochroinae

Agrilinae

subfamilyAgrilinae

Polycestinae

subfamilyPolycestinae

Julodinae

subfamilyJulodinae

Galbellinae

subfamilyGalbellinae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 54964.